Word: joined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...order to increase faculty participation, PBH has announced that, if 90 members contribute in the current drive, it will allow them to join the blood bank, where not only they, but also their families to the third generation, will be eligible for free blood whenever they need it. Only two faculty members donated last year...
...sell their eggs at dictated prices to INRA, which will hold back part of the crop from market. Bat guano is an even more ambitious INRA undertaking, first sparked by Entrepreneur Bud Arvey (son of Chicago Democratic Bigwig Jake Arvey), who hit Cuba last spring with a plan to join the Castro government in a $500,000 partnership to scrape the guano deposits from caves in Pinar del Rio and Matanzas and ship it abroad as fertilizer. Castro decided that the commodity was much too valuable to share. In turning over exclusive control of bat guano to sprawling INRA, Castro...
...undergraduates must write theses and pass state examinations, while graduates work independently under the guidance of an adviser--Russian students find adequate time for outside activities. In addition to Komsomol, the Communist youth organization to which everyone belongs (membership is not compulsory but so desirable that few fall to join), Moscow has a large number of extracurricular activities rather similar to those found in American schools...
Meeting in Washington, representatives of the world's major coffee areas agreed on the first export quota plan ever to include Africa as well as Latin America. Latin Americans, citing a world market of about 39 million bags v. production of about 51 million, wanted the Africans to join them in last year's pact, but the Africans were more interested in bigger markets than in price. Brazil's selling blitz cut sharply into African sales, persuaded Africans to sign...
...fall's token integration in Little Rock high schools. Said Heiskell: "His decision to accept the position actually was delayed on his own motion for more than a year because of the school situation here." Long associated with Fund for Republic programs, Ashmore in his new job will join a group of scholars and experts, e.g., former Assistant Secretary of State A. A. Berle Jr., Columbia University's famed physicist I. Rabi, in a search for ways to improve the performance of mass means of communication...